Clippers Topbuzz Site Rules and Guidelines [Updated]

Hey guys- seeing that the site as grown by a lot the past few months, I've decided to implement some rules and guidelines to make the forum a better place for all Clipper fans. Most of these are pretty much no-brainers, but some might not be as obvious. So PLEASE read through the entire list and feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

General Guidelines:

1) This is a discussion forum and not everyone is going to agree. But do not resort to insulting other fellow members or launch any sort of personal attack.

2) Use good grammar/spelling and don't use ALL-CAPS (it makes it "sound" like you're yelling).

3) Prevent duplicate topics. Before you post a new topic, be sure that the same topic hasn't already been posted. Use the "Search" function in the forum if needed. When there are too many different topics that are essentially the same topic it makes the forum look un-tidy. There are exceptions though and it's okay to post a similar topic if it involves some sort of late-breaking news/rumors. However once that's posted it's not okay to post ANOTHER topic regarding the SAME news/event.

4) Post in the proper Forum. E.g. please do not post a topic called "I Hate Elton Brand" in the Clippers Rumors forum.

5) Use a descriptive topic name when creating new topics. Don't create topics with names such as "What do you think", "You must read this" or "Check this out".

6) Feel free to give a positive reputation vote to another member whom you think have made a great post. You can do so by clicking on the little +/- icon which is located above the user's online status. Please do not ask for votes, however. Also please don't give negative votes to another member unless you deem it's absolutely deserved.

7) If you're an experienced user and see a new member not following these guidelines, please help out by referring them to this post.

8) For forum avatars, anything over 200 pixels wide is too wide, and anything over 400 pixels tall is too long. For signature images 400 pixels by 300 pixels is the maximum acceptable dimension. How can you tell what the dimensions are? If you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox you can simply right-click on an image, then select Properties and it will tell you its width and height.

9)Please be selective in quoting other posts. Instead of quoting a huge, several-post long discussion, please just quote the sentence(s) you are referring to. This will make the threads easier to read.

10) Most of all- have a good time! This is a Clippers Message Board where you can discuss the Clippers with hundreds of fellow fans. How great is that?!

Actions that WILL get a user banned:

1) Personal attack and/or threatening another member with violence anywhere on the site, including via PM (Private Messages). We all disagree at one point or another, but please do not resort to silly personal attacks and name-calling. It doesn't really matter who started the attack- if you attack back you're just as guilty. Instead of attacking back please send notification noting the offensive post(s) / messages.

2) Creating a user name or using avatars or linking to images that are rude/vulgar/sexually explicit.

3) Creating a user name with the purpose of impersonating/offending an existing user.

4) Using racist/sexist/homophobic/religion-attacking word(s) in posts.

5) Attempting to circumvent quality control systems such as the Reputation System. For instance creating another username and voting for yourself is not acceptable. Also giving negative votes to other members for no reason is prohibited.

6) Posting unsolicited commercial advertisements.

7) Posting any sort of discussions of any form of illegal activity such as music or software piracy.

8) Repeatedly creating new topics when a same/similar topic has already been posted the same day.

10) Posting any message promoting any particular religion or religious organization. While Clippers Topbuzz has the utmost respect for all religions please keep in mind that this is a basketball site and not a site to be used to spread any particular faith.

11) Implying physical violence to *anyone*, including NBA Players and members of the site.

12) Trolling/Excessive non-Clipper discussion: Fan of another team creating disrespectful/insulting posts/topics regarding the Clippers with the intent of eliciting a negative reaction from fellow members is prohibited. Also members continually creating posts/topics promoting non-Clipper NBA teams should be avoided as well.

13)[NEW] Extreme trolling by a Clipper fan is no longer allowed. "Extreme" is quantified as such: over 80% of your posts within the last 14 days, even if you are a Clipper fan, denigrate the team and or player(s). Despite being a Clipper fan, if the majority of all you do on the site is criticize using hyperbole without statistics to backup claims, and rarely offer posts that support the team, then you are in violation of this rule.

In addition, constantly directing unfriendly remarks/trolling towards any particular member is prohibited. Please use the ignore button if you do not like a poster and his posts, but DO NOT instead constantly create inflammatory posts with the sole purpose of hounding/aggravating a particular member.

The Clippers Topbuzz management and moderators do their best to make the site a friendly, accessible website for members to talk about the Los Angeles Clippers. If you have an issue with a moderator or the site itself, please feel free to PM the moderator or site admin about your problem. DO NOT troll (constantly berate, denigrate, or mock) the moderators or the site or you could be banned. No one (except the trolls) want to see the Clippers topics devolve into petty personal snipes and complaining by site rule violators. While we welcome with open arms all fellow fans who want to talk Clipper basketball, we do not tolerate site/moderator-trolls who would disrupt Clipper discussions by drawing negative attention to the enforcement of the site rules and guidelines.

14) Explicit/vulgar/repeated talk of sex/sexual acts is not allowed in the forums.

Also please note that the Clippers TopBuzz management reserves the right to change or delete any post, member name, signature file, pictures or related content in the forums at any time, without notification.

Should a violation of the rules result in a user being banned, any new accounts created by the user will also be banned.

Thanks everyone!

KamanOwnsYou

07/18/2008 - 01:35 PM PST

Clipper Starter

Posts: 365

Location: Newport Beach, CA

votes: 5

I USE ALL CAPS BC IM AN ENGINEER. I APOLOGIZE NOW FOR IT.

clipnasty

07/18/2008 - 01:39 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1301

votes: 14

Well in David, again. Thanks.

ClipperCalvin

07/18/2008 - 01:46 PM PST

Clipper 6th Man

Posts: 211

votes: 2

can you post the person's SN, when you ban them from the site, so that the rest of us can laugh (silently)...?

Miquel

07/18/2008 - 02:48 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1853

Location: Barcelona

votes: 16

I think it was totally necessary to remind these "rules"...

Many times I get lost with the thousands of topics that many people open without looking if there's already one topic talking about the same. IMO there are some unnecessary topics but it's just my opinion.

KamanOwnsYou

07/18/2008 - 03:12 PM PST

Clipper Starter

Posts: 365

Location: Newport Beach, CA

votes: 5

Lets all calm down, I took off the caps lock! I am an engineer and thats how we use them on work. I'll stop "yelling" at everyone haha

jlemmen43

07/18/2008 - 07:25 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1403

Location: Green Bay, WI

votes: 10

Yeah, I like this post a lot, David. You've worded it very well and I think everyone here respects your professionalism and fairness. Thanks again! GO CLIPPERS!!! (that's gotta go in all-caps, hehe)

clipper*joe

07/18/2008 - 07:50 PM PST

CTB MVP Champion

Posts: 16362

Location: los angeles

votes: 129

Way to tighten up the ship David!

LAC_12

07/18/2008 - 08:54 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 2171

Location: West Coast

votes: 20

ima a rebel, an outlaw, i am above the law, i break rules for fun IM JUST THIS BAD!

MrB

07/18/2008 - 10:06 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 2433

votes: 18

Thanks David. Good to know. Hopefully everyone that is here can follow the rules. Those that come on here just to talk s**t won't be tolerated. Peace!

clipperfan909

07/21/2008 - 05:18 PM PST

Clipper Starter

Posts: 263

votes: 9

i second that!

clipshow

07/21/2008 - 05:21 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1593

Location: L.A

votes: 10

Please remember the language post please. My nephew is 5 and we read some of these post together. I can understand maybe some heat of the moment writing but sometimes people are just not using the proper language when there just responding to a topic.

toohipcliptoslip

07/21/2008 - 06:25 PM PST

CTB MVP X1

Posts: 4926

votes: 32

Golly gee whiz I think you're doggone right!

clipshow

07/21/2008 - 06:57 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1593

Location: L.A

votes: 10

Thank you for understanding.

EI_Nino_Jesus

07/21/2008 - 10:07 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1016

votes: 8

good stuff dave

scudsy

07/22/2008 - 05:56 PM PST

Clipper 6th Man

Posts: 170

votes: 2

dave, i think that it would be better if you also crack down on post whoring. like making useless posts just to get your post count up because i noticed that alot of good threads have been going off-topic because of people posting random off-topic things.

KamanOwnsYou

07/22/2008 - 06:37 PM PST

Clipper Starter

Posts: 365

Location: Newport Beach, CA

votes: 5

[quote="scudsy"]dave, i think that it would be better if you also crack down on post whoring. like making useless posts just to get your post count up because i noticed that alot of good threads have been going off-topic because of people posting random off-topic things.[/quote

Responding to other peoples post's is not a crime, its part of having a forum. We appreciate the concern though.

Calm down scudsy boy and celebrate when we win the championship this year

david

07/22/2008 - 06:58 PM PST

Site Admin

Posts: 9220

votes: 43

Yeah I've noticed that too. Post counts don't really count for anything though- in fact I've removed the top posters in last X days block on the right side of the main page.

I will be looking into implementing some sort of post count cap per day for members who don't have a certain # of net positive votes.

scudsy

07/22/2008 - 08:53 PM PST

Clipper 6th Man

Posts: 170

votes: 2

thanks dave. much respect. i think that it will help filter this forum and help make information easier to locate instead of having to read through a bunch of irrelevent posts.

i respect how you always improve the clippers.topbuzz forums.

david

07/23/2008 - 01:49 PM PST

Site Admin

Posts: 9220

votes: 43

Thanks for the props guys- I'm always open to improving to the experience here fellow Clipper fans. BTW I've just increased the post limit from 10 to 20 for those with +2 net positive votes or fewer. I think 10 was tad too few.

EI_Nino_Jesus

07/23/2008 - 02:20 PM PST

Clipper All-Star

Posts: 1016

votes: 8

Dave you have the best sig. As of now RL

journeyman

11/07/2010 - 07:27 PM PST

CTB MVP X1

Posts: 3835

Location: Los Angeles

votes: 40

Just a reminder to all CTB members:

If you notice someone blatantly breaking rules, you can notify the mods by clicking on the [Alert Moderators] button on the right-hand side, above the quote button. Otherwise, you can choose to ignore a poster by clicking the "ignore" button, below the votes.

Please don't engage or flame back when someone breaks the rules.

Clippersfan86

11/07/2010 - 08:10 PM PST

CTB MVP Champion

Posts: 15536

Location: Anaheim

votes: 91

So basically nobody do what I do and you'll be safe lol

journeyman

11/07/2010 - 08:16 PM PST

CTB MVP X1

Posts: 3835

Location: Los Angeles

votes: 40

Nah man, you're good.

Clippersfan86

11/07/2010 - 08:29 PM PST

CTB MVP Champion

Posts: 15536

Location: Anaheim

votes: 91

journeyman wrote:

Clippersfan86 wrote:

So basically nobody do what I do and you'll be safe lol

Nah man, you're good.

8)

SamMays

01/04/2011 - 11:52 PM PST

CTB MVP X1

Posts: 4144

votes: 58

Okay... I was multi-tasking on my computer and my screen changed in mid click... I accidentally clicked "Ignore" on someone... How do I take him off ignore?

Edit...

nevermind... Got it... Although the user was Clipper Joe so if we have any new Baron discussions I might need to activate it again.

dmc

05/02/2013 - 11:58 AM PST

Clipper D-League Pickup

Posts: 3

votes: 0

New to board. (dsm). How do I log off so I do not show I am on chat

david

05/02/2013 - 01:11 PM PST

Site Admin

Posts: 9220

votes: 43

To log out, click that + sign on the upper left to show the menu, then click "Register/Log in", then click "Log-out" on the right.

david

11/02/2014 - 01:06 AM PST

Site Admin

Posts: 9220

votes: 43

Hi everyone- just a heads up that I have just added a new rule to the site:

13)[NEW] Extreme trolling by a Clipper fan is no longer allowed. "Extreme" is quantified as such: over 80% of your posts within the last 14 days, even if you are a Clipper fan, denigrate the team and or player(s). Despite being a Clipper fan, if the majority of all you do on the site is criticize using hyperbole without statistics to backup claims, and rarely offer posts that support the team, then you are in violation of this rule.

This takes into effect today. Also a reminder that the Ignore button works great if you do not want to read posts by any particular individual. Thanks guys!

Silasie

11/02/2014 - 07:14 AM PST

CTB MVP X1

Posts: 2523

votes: 2

Nice one David.

Tread carefully JQuick or your days are numbered. 80% for you is a bit like asking DJ to shoot that percentage from the stripe.

FightOnRon

11/02/2014 - 10:52 AM PST

CTB MVP X2

Posts: 5134

Location: The Darkside

votes: 39

Nice David,but,you didn't put in anything about bad-mouthing the owner of the board!